8th Intelligence Squadron

The United States Air Force's 8th Intelligence Squadron is an intelligence unit located at Hickam AFB, Hawaii.

Lineage

• Constituted as the 8th Photo Lab Section on 21 Oct 1943

Activated on 1 Nov 1943

Redesignated 8th Photographic Technical Unit on 4 Nov 1944

Inactivated on 1 Apr 1949

• Redesignated 8th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron on 16 October 1984 (remained inactive)
• Redesignated 8th Intelligence Squadron on 9 Dec 2008

Activated on 1 January 2009

Assignments

• III Reconnaissance Command, 1 November 1943
• Fifth Air Force, 30 April 1944
• 91st Photographic Wing (later 91st Reconnaissance Wing), 8 May 1944
• V Bomber Command, 6 March 1946
• Fifth Air Force, 14 November 1948
• 314th Air Division, 20 August 1948 – 1 April 1949
• 692d Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, 1 Jan 2009 – present

Stations

• Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, 1 November 1943
• Woodward Army Air Field, Oklahoma, 27 December 1943
• Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, 6 Feb 1944
• Camp Stoneman, California, 26 March – 9 April 1944
• Australia, 30 April 1944
• Nadzab, New Guinea, 5 May 1944
• Hollandia, New Guinea, 25 June 1944
• Biak Island New Guinea, 14 August 1944
• Leyte, Philippines, 5 November 1944
• Mindoro, Philippines, 29 January 1945
• Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines, 20 March 1945
• Toguchi, Okinawa, 27 July 1945
• Tachikawa, Japan, 27 September 1945
• Irumagawa Army Air Base, Japan, 19 January 1946 – 1 April 1949
• Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, 1 Jan 2009 – present

Decorations

• Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
• Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation

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